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No. Philadelphia, June 16,1891 



When the truth is suppressed by the machinations of the press or the 
perfidy of man, silence is crime 

"There is one art which every man should master — the art of reflection." 
— Southey. 



The reflections of a "Citizen" of Philadelphia since 1843, 
are freely given to the public without money or price by the 
author, 

"A CITIZEN" 



Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1891, 

By Joseph Tomlinson, 
In the office of Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



No. i. 

June I, 1891. 

A Citizen's^ Reflections . . 

Truth crushed to eaxth by the machinations of the press or the perfidy of man 
will arise again. 

A citizen of this city since 1843, interested in public 
affairs to the same extent as the great body of his fellow citi- 
zens, while engaged in worthy efforts to gain an honest sub- 
sistence, sends his reflections to the public press of this city. 
The reasons actuating " A Citizen " is the public disgraceful 
exhibit of the crimes of John Bardsleyand many others, which 
has startled all citizens that feel a common interest in man- 
kind's honest purposes and acts. These exposed crimes would 
destroy man's confidence in mankind did not people have faith 
and trust in the citizens' devotion to the right, and a confidence 
in the mass of the class of citizens who can yet do the voting. 
They, it has been found in the past, are to be trusted to right 
a wrong, which is ever impossible for them to accomplish 
whenever their power is taken from them by special laws, as 
has been done in the case of the Public Building Commission. 
All citizens and taxpayers now know this special act has left 
them powerless to right the wrong. A few self-assumed 
" better classes," from their want of faith in the whole people, 
have been the cause of all such acts as in the case named. The 
public press is causing among the people a belief that they 
are mercenary*, and the fear is being expressed, "They are as 



♦MERCENARY. 

One serving for pay, one who is hired ; a hireling. — ll'orct-stt'r. 



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much so as the cormorants who play upon the people's fancies, 
and the politicians who work the public for power and emolu- 
ments of office." All working men know those who compose 
the few of the " better class," so called — nearly all live off of the 
product of the labor of the masses of mankind, and that with- 
out their help by industrious and honest efforts, this commu- 
nity could not have prosperity. They are the cause and our city 
the effect, and, without the toil of the many, the " better classes " 
could have no place or existence. The great body of the 
people, the requisite and cause of the existence of this pros- 
perous city, are losing their faith in the now claimed " better 
class " of the public press, and they have long since had little 
faith in the political leaders or their followers, who, they see, 
are the active part of the machine that works the public 
money in the wrong direction so often. The great mass of the 
citizens desire honesty, and they are the only power that can 
be trusted to right a wrong. They can and will do so in 
the future, as they have in the past, if they are not robbed 
by special laws or intimidation. All right-minded men will 
trust the freeman, for with them only liberty is safe, for it is 
through the efforts of the many that this nation was preserved, 
and liberty to all the people maintained. This land of promise 
could not have survived without the devotion of the masses 
to the right, who were and remain its support, and give to this 
nation its wonderful prominence among the nations of the 
earth. Our material strength in agriculture, mining and 
manufactures, now the wonder and admiration of all mankind, 
never could have come to us as a people except by the toil of 
masses of citizens. There was a bill before the last Legisla- 
ture which aimed to take from the people the election of 
School Directors, and give the Judges the power to appoint 
the servants of the people. Citizens are seeing and feeling 
that all such acts are a great wrong done by the few 
" better classes " of citizens to the many. This is made 
plain by the teachings of the past. The few have done a great 
wrong to the many by the special law creating the Building 
Commission. All taxpayers now feel the effects of this wrong, 



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as it has taken from them their power to right it. This was the 
act of a few best citizens. The people have noticed such acts 
result in some one or more of the few gaining positions 
secretly desired, and, they fear, often promised at the time 
they were working for the so-called reform, which the 
few claim to be a great reform. The citizens notice men 
of the assumed " better class " posing as examples like 
John Bardsley, Kennedy, and, unfortunately, many others, 
and the great body of the people have come to judge men 
only by their acts. They have been forced to accept the 
proverb, " Acts speak louder than words." The great mass of 
working men and women of this city have held court, and their 
verdict is rendered and a sentence recorded, finding John 
Bardsley and Kennedy guilty of forgery, robbery of the 
people's money, and perjury, a verdict which can never be 
reversed, for it is a just one for the crimes they have com- 
mitted. Their numerous aiders in the wrongs done the 
people, the citizens are making up a like honest and just 
verdict, which, when rendered, will be found to be the people's 
just verdict, as much so as in the case of the criminals already 
sentenced by a just public sentiment. 

" A CITIZEN." 



No. 2. 

June 4, 1 89 1. 

The following communication, addressed to the President 
and Members of Select Council, was read : " A Citizen of 
Philadelphia since 1843, and a voter in the Republican party 
since its birth, submits respectfully for your consideration the 
following: I voted for Mayor Stuart, who, since coming 
into office, I and many citizens fear, has been instrumental in 
the passage (up to this time I believe only in one branch of 
Councils) of a bill to increase to $10,000 a year, which many 
citizens believe is an exorbitant amount, to two already over- 
paid offices. I have not spoken to one citizen (and I have 



spoken to many) that does not feel this to be a great wrong 
done to all taxpayers. I have been weakened in my indi- 
vidual hope and faith in the Mayor by this act to the extent 
that I now regret having voted for him, and could I have 
known that this wrong would have been done to the many, I 
could not have done so. The great mass of the people see 
but one thing in such acts, and that is, ' Grab and get all the 
people's money they can, whether they earn it or not.' 

"JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 

" 2020 Spring Garden Street, 

"A Citizen!' 
No. 2. 

June 4, 1 891. 

A Citizen embraces the undoubted right of all citizens to 
be heard in Councils, which body is the servant of the people. 
No citizen, knowing and maintaining his right, can become 
the servant of Councils. 

Note. 

Philadelphia, June 16, 1891. 

A citizen wrote No. 2 because he believed a thousand or more of his 
fellow-citizens \Vere in reach from whom two could be selected that 
would give their whole time to the faithful performance of their duties to 
the citizens for #3,000 a year as heads of Public Works and Public 
Safety. Another reason for No. 2 is contained in the fact that he looks 
upon high salaries as tending to increase the number of privileged 
classes, and has a tendency to remove further from the many all servants 
of the people that receive excessive emoluments of office. 

A CITIZEN. 

(No. 2 was suppressed by the public press.) 

Nos. 3 and 4. 

June 8, 1 89 1. 

Nos. 3 and 4 are referred to in Nos. 6 and 8. 

Clippings from the livening Bulletin of June 4 were 
pasted upon this ; the words it contained are found in full in 
No. 6: "A true history of what occurred June 4, 1891, in 

Select Council." 



June 8, i8ji. 

A Citizen offers the public press of this city a second 
opportunity (the first was freely offered June 4, [891, in 
Select Council Chamber) to embrace a duty they owe to 
themselves and the taxpayers of this city by letting the tax- 
payers know that which they all should know, and have an 
undoubted right to know, what transpired in Select Council 
June 4, 1891. The press of the city can accomplish this by 
the publication of the entire enclosed clipping from the 
Evening 11 idle tin of June 4, 1891. 

" Do your duty, there all the honor lies." 

" Truth crushed to earth by the machinations* of the 
press or the perfidyf of man will arise again." 

JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 

2020 Spring Garden Street, 

A Citizen. 
No. 5. 

June 9, 1 89 1. 
To the Editor- of the Public Ledger : 

In your editorial of this morning is the following: 
" Had Mr. John YVanamaker as a witness yesterday, he 
appeared by invitation, and was very punctual% in putting in 
an appearance." Many citizens there congregated observed 
to their discomfort the untruthfulness of the above quotation ; 
for they were kept by his non-appearance, even punctually 
over an hour in a crowded, unpleasant position awaiting 
his appearance on the witness stand. 

JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 
2020 Spring Garden Street, 

A Citizen. 
No. 5 fully commented upon in No. 8. 

*MACHINATIONS. 

Artifice, a plot, a trick, a strategem, .1 malicious scheme, a hostile design. 

tPERFIDY. 

The breach or violation of faith or trust, treachery. 

\ PUNCTUAL. 

Prompt, punctilious, exict. precipe in observing an engagement; occurring at the 
appointed time. — Webster. 



No. 6. 

June 10, 1891. 

A TRUE HISTORY OF WHAT OCCURRED JUNE 4th, 1891, 
IN SELECT COUNCIL. 

After the reading by the Clerk very distinctly, the protest 
of A Citizen of Philadelphia since 1843, the reporters of many, 
if not all, the morning newspapers of Philadelphia were anxious 
to have the type of the letter read. Two of the reporters came 
to the writer of the protest by A Citizen, and they requested 
a copy. Most all the reporters already possessed it. As so 
many of the reporters had, the writer knew, A Citizen thought 
the disappointed ones could be relieved of their apparent dis- 
appointment, he told the two reporters asking for a copy that 
they could copy from the type of those who possessed it, it 
being generally possessed by the reporters. The citizens of 
this city are requested to notice the following facts : First, the 
Evening Bulletin of June 4, 1891, printed in its edition of that 
date the following : 

" A Citizen's Protest. 

" Mr. Tomlinson doesn't Believe in Increasing the Directors' 

Salaries. 

"The following unique* communication addressed to the 
President and Members of Select Council was read : 

" ' A Citizen of Philadelphia since 1843 and a voter in the 
Republican party since its birth, submits respectfully to your 
consideration the following: I voted for Mayor Stuart, who, 
since coming into office, I and many citizens fear he has been 
instrumental in the passage (up to this time I believe only in 
one branch of Councils) of a bill to increase to $10,000 a year, 
which many citizens believe is an exorbitant amount, to two 



♦UNIQUE. 

Sole, unequaled, single in its kind of excellence. — Webster, 
A thing that exists without a parallel, R. — Worcester. 

SOLE, being without an equal, without another of the same kind known to exist. 
uncommon, F. 



already over-paid officers. I have not spoken to one citizen 
(and I have spoken to many) that does not feel this to be a 
great wrong done to all taxpayers. I have been weakened 
in my individual hope and faith in the Mayor by this act to 
the extent that I now regret having voted for him, and could 
I have known this wrong would have been done to the many, 
I could not have done so. The great mass of the people see 
but one thing in such an act, and that is ' Grab and get all the 
people's money they can, whether they earn it or not.' 

" JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 

" 2020 Spring Garden Street, 

il A Citizen." 

[The above from the Evening Bulletin of June 4, 1891.] 

All the morning papers in Philadelphia June 5, 1 891, so 
far as A Citizen has investigated, make no mention of anything 
occurring, not a word of the above, excepting the Public 
Ledger, which contains the following only : " A communica- 
tion from Joseph Tomlinson, 2020 Spring Garden Street, was 
read protesting against increasing the salaries of the Directors 
of Public Works and Public Safety to $10,000 a year, which 
was laid on the table." It will appear to many taxpayers very 
strange how the above protest was blotted out of existence by 
all the morning papers of June 5, 1891. This unanimous 
action must have been accomplished by concert. It could not 
have been accomplished in any other manner. A Citizen's 
right to protest to Council is a right that never can be justly 
taken away. For it in a manner is denying the taxpayers 
their right to be heard. The newspapers have no right to 
suppress such protest, when it is like the above, in the interest 
of the taxpayers. 

JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 

2020 Spring Garden Street, 

A Citizen. 



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No. 7. 



June 1 1, 1891 



" Truth crushed to earth by the machinations of the 
press or the perfidy of man will arise again." 

" When silence is crime," — Philadelphia Star, May, 30, 
1 891. 

A " Citizen's Reflections," * handed the reporters of many 
of the Philadelphia papers in City Council Chamber June 5, 
1 89 1, having met with the same disposal as his protest read 
in Council on June 4th, by the press of this city, have resulted 
in a " citizens's calling the attention of the readers of the 
public press and also its editors, to the quotation in the 
' reflections ' above referred to." 

" The public press is causing among the people a belief 
that they are ' mercenary,' and the fear is being expressed that 
they are as much so as the cormorants who play upon the 
people's fancies, and the politician who works the public for 
power and the emoluments of office." 

The following reasons for the above expression, and, it 
is feared, the growing belief in the term used, " mercenary," 
cause all thinking persons to realize that the public press of 
the day cannot thrive upon one, two or three cents usually 
charged, and that they can have no continued existence except 
by public and private patronage. Thus it can be seen that 
they cannot afford to offend their patrons. 

"The great body of the people are losing their faith in 
the now claimed better class of the public press." 

This result is reached from examples like the following : 
sometime since the public press, in giving to the public an 
account of a local fire, a " citizen " noticed the following : 
" There were ten cars of lumber burned, containing one 
million feet of lumber." Lumber men are aware, and many 
citizens know, that the usual car of lumber is 10,000 feet, and 
ten cars would have contained but 100,000 feet. So it is 
comprehended at once that this item contained but 10 per 

♦REFLECTION, 

Attentive consideration, meditation, deliberation, contemplation. 



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centum of the truth. Thus we hear the common remark that 
the papers contain too much that is not true; some say, too 
many lies. 

This condition, and the want of exact truth in so many 
other directions, leads to the damage or destruction of the 
people's faith in the public press. Recently " Honest John 
Bardsley " was the only sermon preached to the people by 
the whole public press. The people have found to their 
sorrow that this was an untruth, and, to their shame, that 
" honesty " was very far from the truth, as used in connection 
with " Honest John." 

Editors conducting the public press, it is in order to ask 
yourselves how far you are accountable for having created in 
the minds of the people a faith in the " honesty " of John 
Bardsley. Self-preservation, which is known to have no law, 
may have forced you to adopt mercenary motives that belong 
to the existence of the public journals of the day. 

There never can be a result without a cause. The people 
believe the public press of Philadelphia is largely accountable 
to its citizens for " Honest John's " elevation and control of 
the people's money. Now we have the disgraceful exhibition, 
how far greed of money has disgraced our city, and many of 
its assumed " best citizens," who have, it is known, been 
instrumental in helping John Bardsley in his greed and love 
of money and aiding him to gain possession of the money of 
the people by stock speculations or interest. 

Every dollar gained through the complicity of the banks, 
brokers and others that reached the greedy maw of the treas- 
urer should be returned to the people, its rightful owner. By 
so doing right only can be done to the outraged community. 

JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 

2020 Spring Garden Street, 

A Citizen. 

No. 8 may contain valuable information for the citizens 
of Philadelphia, and also may interest the people of the 
country. 



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No. 8. 



June 12, 1891. 



Accompanying this you will find facts in abundance. 

No. 1 contains no word that is not true. New facts 
respecting No. 1, received per mail June 10, 1891, reads as 
follows : 

" Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, 

" 2020 Spring Garden Street, 
" Dear Sir : 

" Your excellent communication was put in type last week, 
but was unavoidably crowded out. It will appear in our next 
issue. 

" Yours, etc., 

"JOHN S. TAGGART." 

No. 1 contains nothing but facts. No wind can blow 
truth away. 

No. 2 is a fact, and contains no words not true. 

No. 3 another fact, which explains itself. 

Fourth Fact. No. 3 was sent June 9, 1891, to the follow- 
ing by mail and marked "private: " 

Geo. W. Childs, Ledger .Office. Chas. H. Hustes, Inquirer Office. 

Editor Philadelphia Star. Editor North American. 

Editor Evening Bulletin. Editor Philadelphia Press. 

A. K. McClure, limes. Evening Telegraph. 

Col. Taggart, Editor Taggarfs limes. 

June loth. 
Editor Philadelphia Record, and with it a copy of No. 1. 

June 9, 1891. 

To His Honor, Mayor Stuart and Mr. Gates, President 
of Select Council. All were marked "private" on the envel- 
ope. Here you have twelve facts, and, in addition, every 
word in No. 3 is a fact that explains itself, and will show the 



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citizens of Philadelphia that A Citizen has but one profession— 
the Golden Rule, " Do unto others as he would have others 
do unto him." As the persons and editors named have not 
seen proper to observe any part of the Golden Rule, and as 
they have not in one instance done their duty to A Citizen 
or themselves, this is sent you as an important fact connected 
with No. 3, which contains no malice aforethought. 

No. 5 is a fact that is known and proved by the edition 
of the Ledger of June 9, 1891 ; by its long detail of the 
evidence of Mr. Drew, who was called because Mr. John 
Wanamaker did not appear punctually at the time his name 
was called (which was done once, I know, and 1 think twice). 
Thus No. 5 contains no distorted fact, but understates the 
truth, which is contained in the fact that Mr. Drew was under 
investigation one and three quarter hours before Mr. J. W. 
could be called again. Thus, you see, No. 5 is all fact: 
excepting a supposition that the over an hour named can be 
used to shield J. \V. a little. 

Fact No. 6 in connection with No. 5, which was directed 
to George W. Childs only, marked "private." Mr. G. W. C. 
has known the writer as a citizen of repute many years, and 
A Citizen believes he is aware of the fact that Joseph Tomlin- 
son was connected as a partner with the most successful dry 
goods jobbing house in Philadelphia from 1856 to 1880, and 
that he retired December, 1880, at which time the house went 
out of business. 

No. 5 is sent you because the Ledger, up to June 12, 
1891, has not corrected its editorial clause " Very prompt." 
By this it does appear to .1 Citizen, and he fears that it will 
appear to many citizens, that the Ledger has not done a 
credit to itself or treated justly A Citizen of 48 years' stand- 
ing. 

No. 6, June 10, 1891, contains the facts in detail presented 
by A Citizen, and explains to the common understanding oi 
men the passing events of the day. 

No. 7, June 11, 1891, contains facts in abundance, which 
are, it is to be regretted, all true. 



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Fact. No other citizen has a part or connection with the 
matter or reflections now in your hands only in full to date, 
June 12, i8o,[. The facts in No. 5 are only in possession of 
the Ledger and World. 

" Truth crushed to earth by the machinations of the 
press or the perfidy of man will arise again." Another fact. 
The world and all the public journals of the world cannot 
destroy the type of the job printing offices. And you may 
rest assured, life being spared to A Citizen, little time will 
elapse before the citizens of this city will have an opportunity, 
in pamphlet form, without money and without price, to read 
the facts here submitted to you. 

P. S. — Should you not see proper to use the facts as pre- 
sented, you are not at liberty to present any one of them in a 
disconnected form, which would be an injustice done to A 
Citizen, you must know without being told. 

Yours truly, 

JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 

" A Citizen" 

No. 9. 

May 28, 1 89 1. 

This A. M. in its editorials says in justifi- 

cation for its advocacy of the Porter Bill, that all the papers 
in Philadelphia are for the change. I called to inform the 
editor in a friendly way that nearly all the papers in Philadel- 
phia advocated John Bardsley's election, and now we have 
evidence for a belief that they were all possessed of private 
information which was suppressed. As for myself I had 
enough private knowledge at the time of his election to pre- 
vent me helping to place in the City Treasury one, who I 
feared, was a dishonest man. My then fears, I now regret, 
have been realized. John Bardsley's dishonest methods have 
never before been equalled in this city. 

P. S. — The quoted editorial makes no account of citizens. 
It assumes because the public press is for the change that the 



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bill should have been passed. Citizens are not servants of 
the public press, for many believe the public press should be 
their servant. All good citizens hold fast to their right to 
think upon public matters for themselves. No public press, 
political or mercenary, has the power to take away their right 
to judge for themselves. The belief "private information 
which was suppressed " has become very prevalent among the 
citizens of Philadelphia. 

No. 10. 

Philadelphia, June 13, 1891. 
George S. Graham, 
District Attorney : 

Citizens of this city and the people of the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania were startled on learning that at the 
hearing and binding over of John Bardsley, that the official 
oath required to be taken at the time this servant of the 
people assumed by law the charge of the people's money 
could or was not produced. This has caused grave reflec- 
tions in the minds of the people. You are their trusted and 
highly valued servant, and they are trusting that you will 
defend them by a proper execution of the law made for their 
protection. Laws are, you know, intended to punish all 
criminals, and that the people demand for all its servants who 
transgress, the law's proper penalty. The laws were all made 
to protect the people. Your full duty to the people requires 
this, for your office was created that they could be sure of 
reaching all criminals. Leave nothing undone. You are 
looked to as the proper person to vindicate the law. John 
Bardsley, late the trusted custodian of the people's money, has 
acted the part of the most criminal servant of the people. 
His perfidy is unknown in the history of the state, his acts 
show no parallel. Let all who aided him in robbing the 
people feel the just penalty of their acts, then all will be well; 
for, by the just execution of the law only will others be 
deterred from inflicting in the future, other wrongs on the 



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community. The confidence of the people in their servant 
chosen as District Attorney, and their faith and trust that he 
would do his duty still remains, and that he may be trusted 
to enforce the penalty of the law on all guilty persons. This 
public trust in a sworn officer of the law I fear will be weak- 
ened if John Bardsley is not convicted of perjury. This, the 
people know, should follow as a just penalty of his guilty acts. 
They feel and know his guilt has disgraced him and the 
people, and caused a feeling of shame never equaled in this 
community. 

I trust you will receive this in the spirit intended, as it 
has no other purpose or intent than to strengthen the hands 
of Justice. 

Yours truly, 

JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 
2020 Spring Garden Street, 

A Citizen. 

P. S. — This true history begun June I and ending June 
15,1891, is given to the public without money and without 
price by a citizen who believes he has done unto othere as he 
would have others do unto him. The public press has shown 
no respect for the Golden Rule, and they thus have made 
themselves responsible, by forcing a citizen to let the people 
know that which they have the undoubted right to know by 
this pamphlet. 

A CITIZP2N. 

Note. 

Philadelphia, June 16, 1891. 

Mr. George S. Graham, 

District Attorney. 

Dear Sir : 

Your favor of June 15th is at hand. Contents noted. It is 
pleasant to notice that you respect the Golden Rule. In answer to yours 
I have, and no doubt many fellow-citizens have, " followed up the case of 
John Bardsley as published in the daily papers." They are no doubt 
possessed of all the facts so clearly given in your communication. Your 



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" It would be useless waste of time, energy and money to try John Bards- 
lev upon any other charge." My answer to this is : " By the just execu- 
tion of the law only will others be deterred from inflicting in the future 
other wrongs upon the community. This public trust in a public and 
sworn officer of the law I fear will be weakened if John Bardsley is not 
convicted of perjury." You say " is a very idle suggestion." This quo- 
tation from yours does not calm the fear known to exist and given to you 
in the best intentions. As to the law point possibility of convicting J. B. 
of perjury, I know little. I only know the laws of Pennsylvania contain 
the following : " Persons convicted of perjury shall forever be disquali- 
fied from being a witness in any matter in controversy." In this law 
provision is made for their protection from future trouble coming to the 
people from persons convicted of perjury. John Bardsley's case up to 
date reads as follows : " A confessed criminal was at his hearing charged 
with robbery and perjury. At his hearing the first charge was made out. 
The second charge, perjury, the greater crime, was postponed to the I2th 
of June, 1 89 1. Absence of proof was shown to be in the fact that the 
official oath required by law to be taken before he could legally enter 
upon the duties of his office could or was not produced. 

The people have reason to believe that sundry persons were present 
and saw John Bardsley take the oath of office ; thus, no wonder the peo- 
ple were startled at John Bardsley's hearing. John Bardsley, now in 
Moyamensing under charge of robbery only, the future history of his 
case is becoming very important, for John Bardsley has so far escaped 
from the grave charge of perjury. 

My letter of June 13th to you has so far escaped notice by the public 
press. Should your answer of June 15th find place in the newspapers, I 
wish you to observe the Golden Rule and not allow it to appear without 
mine of the 13th appearing in connection with it. In a very few days a 
citizen expects to have in print an eighteen-page pamphlet which will 
explain itself. I shall remember you in connection with the public as 
soon as the pamphlet is completed. 

Yours truly, 

JOSEPH TOMLINSON, 

2020 Spring Garden Street. 

(A copy of this was mailed to the District Attorney June 16, in answer 
to a letter received from him same day.) 



June 17, 1891. 

The following old definition of a politician came into 
existence over two hundred years ago, and A Citizen fears its 
truth is applicable in 1891. Worcester, — " Politician : A man 
of artifice or deep contrivance." " The man who can make 
two ears of corn, or two blades of grass grow on the spot 
where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, 
and render more essential service to the country than the 
whole race of politicians put together." — Swift. 

A Citizen has noticed that since June 12, no servant of 
the people, politician or the public press, up to June 18, 1891, 
have demanded that John Bardsley shall, like all other citi- 
zens, stand his trial upon the charge of perjury. The citizens 
have impartially convicted John Bardsley of perjury by a just 
public sentiment. Citizens may form a correct conclusion 
who will be responsible if he escapes the just penalty for 
perjury in our courts of law. This pamphlet, which the 
machinations of the press and perfidy of politicians could not 
prevent, contains nothing but that which is unfortunately true, 
and which the people could not learn except through private 
type of the printer, which the writer knew all the public jour- 
nals in the world could not destroy. 

A CITIZEN. 
Here the duty of A Citizen to the public ends. 



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